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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZQ_the-american-royal_Kansas-City-MO.html
Kansas Citians may have hung up their cowboy hats for business suits, but we're still mighty proud of our "Cowtown" past. In fact, we celebrate it every year with one of the oldest livestock shows in the country - The American Royal.
Establishe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZP_mouse-tale_Kansas-City-MO.html
Believe it or not, everyone's favorite mouse may have been conceived right here in Kansas City. Mickey Mouse's creator, Walt Disney, spent much of his youth in our city after moving here from his childhood home in Marceline, Missouri. But his care…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZO_home-of-bbq_Kansas-City-MO.html
On a warm summer evening in Kansas City, you can develop an appetite just driving down the street. That's because this unofficial "Home of Barbecue" boasts more than 90 barbecue-devoted restaurants, as well as numerous BBQ cookoffs, and a whole co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZN_hale-the-firepole_Kansas-City-MO.html
Imagine this scene in 1850? a dry, hot summer day in the newly incorporated town of Kansas City. The street is crowded with wooden structures. Suddenly, swirls of black smoke stream from a saloon roof. The church bells begin to ring, calling for e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZL_the-country-club-plaza_Kansas-City-MO.html
Like Cinderella, Kansas City's famous Country Club Plaza wasn't always a glittering princess. In the late 1890s, the area, known as Brush Creek Valley, was still a marshland populated by beavers and foxes, and tread only by fur trappers, Native Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZK_happy-trails_Kansas-City-MO.html
Here in Kansas City, hikers and bikers can get a large dose of history with their fitness routines, thanks to the location of the city's top trails.
One of the most popular city trails follows an old trolley line that once carried riders from W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZJ_the-liberty-memorial_Kansas-City-MO.html
The Liberty Memorial, one of Kansas City's most recognizable landmarks, is the only major memorial in the United States dedicated to World War I.
In late 1919, when American spirit was at its peak following "the war to end all wars," Kansas Cit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZI_tribal-heritage_Kansas-City-MO.html
It was not by choice that much of what remained of the original Huron Tribe of Ontario came to live in "the town of Kansas" in the 1840s. They had wandered for 50 years through the northern states after being cut off by the Iroquois. By 1701, much…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZH_shoe-parties_Kansas-City-MO.html
Tea biscuits, duck ponds and school shoes. That's what comes to mind when the locals recall Kansas Citian, Ella Loose. After nearly seven decades, her name lives on through the many great philanthropic gifts she bestowed on our city.
In the ear…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSZF_the-stockyards_Kansas-City-MO.html
Railroads and cattle. The two were made for each other, and nowhere did that become more evident than right here in Kansas City.
As cattlemen began using the expanding Kansas Pacific railroad to move cattle more quickly from Texas to points eas…